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Intel ME: NSA HAP Switch [re: hidden/undocumented instructions]
by grarpamp 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

http://fm.csl.sri.com/LAW/2009/dobry-law09-HAP-Challenges.pdf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] How to find hidden/undocumented instructions To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com FYI -- http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_engine_can_be_dis… Intel ME controller chip has secret kill switch Researchers find undocumented accommodation for government customers By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 29 Aug 2017 at 00:12 Security researchers at Moscow-based Positive Technologies have identified an undocumented configuration setting that disables Intel Management Engine 11, a CPU control mechanism that has been described as a security risk. Intel's ME consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, in conjunction with integrated peripherals. It handles much of the data travelling between the processor and external devices, and thus has access to most of the data on the host computer. If compromised, it becomes a backdoor, giving an attacker control over the affected device. That possibility set off alarms in May, with the disclosure of a vulnerabilityin Intel's Active Management Technology, a firmware application that runs on the Intel ME. The revelation prompted calls for a way to disable the poorly understood hardware. At the time, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called it a security hazard. The tech advocacy group demanded a way to disable "the undocumented master controller inside our Intel chips" and details about how the technology works. An unofficial workaround called ME Cleaner can partially hobble the technology, but cannot fully eliminate it. "Intel ME is an irremovable environment with an obscure signed proprietary firmware, with full network and memory access, which poses a serious security threat," the project explains. On Monday, Positive Technologies researchers Dmitry Sklyarov, Mark Ermolov, and Maxim Goryachy said they had found a way to turn off the Intel ME by setting the undocumented HAP bit to 1 in a configuration file. HAP stands for high assurance platform. It's an IT security framework developed by the US National Security Agency, an organization that might want a way to disable a feature on Intel chips that presents a security risk. The Register asked Intel about this and received the same emailed statement that was provided to Positive Technologies. "In response to requests from customers with specialized requirements we sometimes explore the modification or disabling of certain features," Intel's spokesperson said. "In this case, the modifications were made at the request of equipment manufacturers in support of their customer's evaluation of the US government's 'High Assurance Platform' program. These modifications underwent a limited validation cycle and are not an officially supported configuration." Positive Technologies in its blog post acknowledged that it would be typical for government agencies to want to reduce the possibility of unauthorized access. It noted that HAP's affect on Boot Guard, Intel's boot process verification system, remains unknown, though it hopes to answer that question soon. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Antifa's thoughtcrime is any thought itself.
by Umair Chachar 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

I literally re-read 1984 because of the parallels between Antifa's world view (a terrorist organization) and Orwellian dystopia. https://youtu.be/plyC2ipo2B4 VR, Umair

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Re: [Cryptography] early archives of cypherpunks?
by jd.cypherpunks 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

http://cypherpunks.venona.com--jd null

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Kim Dotcom: Caught In The Web
by grarpamp 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8iTRn8GUWc https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kim+dotcom+caught+in+the+web http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/search/kim%20dotcom/0/99/0 https://torrentfreak.com/director-of-kim-dotcom-documentary-speaks-out-on-p… http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDiili2Gs-0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7cWPBtFP3_EnY8guMpz1zTQbIRaA_wzP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08 http://suprbayoubiexnmp.onion/ http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/static/dump/

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Re: [tor-relays] Any IP allocations available out there?
by grarpamp 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

These days, layer 3 IP is nothing other than handy identifier for layer 2 and below traffic characterization and probing. So long as everyone continues whining about bandwidth, which can perhaps be mostly free at link layer, or are being anti-mix, as starter defenses... they'll get no solution. IMO, ATM.

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TigerSwan, the S*umbag mercenaries who stalked #StandingRock Doxed
by Razer 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

Here's hoping it gets a few of these blackshirt scumbags killed farther down the line. > Thousands of sensitive mercenary resumes exposed after security lapse > > The resumes contained personal and sensitive information on > prospective private security contractors, many of which have top > secret security clearance. > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/thousands-of-sensitive-mercenary-resumes-expos… http://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-job-applicants-citing-top-secret-us-govern-…

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Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements
by Ryan Carboni 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualization_requirements 43 years ago, virtual machines were first envisioned. Now there are more malicious versions of the Morris worm. I'm not sure if this essay is still accurate: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui… but Micah Lee clearly doesn't understand it: If that attacker gets the ability to run programs of their choice on your > computer, as they often aim to do, they have access to all of your files. > They can start logging your keystrokes, taking screenshots, and even > listening to your microphone and watching through your webcam. There appears to be a widespread failure in communicating current vulnerabilities as a result of current features, thus preventing people from making informed decisions on various topics.

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Wikileaks DNS hacked
by CANNON 02 Sep '17

02 Sep '17

Looks like wikileaks domain name was hijacked. [!]Hacked By OurMine[!]# OurMine # â€” YOUR SERCURITY IS LOW â€” Hi, it's OurMine ( Security Group ), don't worry we are just testing your.... blablablab, Oh wait, this is not a security test! Wikileaks, remember when you challenged us to hack you? Anonymous, remember when you tried to dox us with fake information for attacking wikileaks? https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/679472812013301762 There we go! One group beat you all! #WikileaksHack let's get it trending on twitter! Www.OurMine.Org | contact(a)ourmine.org https://wikileaks.org/.charCodeAt(0))%7B

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Fwd: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] The Individual vs. Globalism
by grarpamp 02 Sep '17

02 Sep '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA International <MailHub(a)ecoterra.net> Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:27 PM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] The Individual vs. Globalism To: MAILHUB <mailhub(a)ecoterra.net> The Individual vs. Globalism By Jon Rappoport (*) - 20. August 2017 "Global solution" means the individual is cut out of the equation, s/he doesn't count, s/he doesn't mean anything in the larger scheme of things, s/he's just another pawn and cipher to move around on the board. This is purposeful. This is the script for the future: create problems whose only solution appears to be collective. Psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually divert the individual's attention from his own vision, his own profound desires, his own imagination---and place it within the Group ("all of humanity"). Propagandize the idea that, if the individual concerns himself with anything other than the Group, s/he is selfish, greedy, inhumane. s/he is a criminal. More and more, this is how the young are being trained these days. The grand "we" is being sold to them like a cheap street drug. they buy in. They believe this "we" is real, instead of a hollow con designed to drag them into a Globalist framework owned and operated by mega-corporations, banks, foundations, governments, and ubiquitous Rockefeller interests. And what of the individual, the person's mind, unique perception, independent ideas, originality, life-force? Swept away in the rush toward "a better world." I have breaking news. Earth is not a spaceship and we are not crew members. If Earth is a spaceship, it has serious design flaws, because it keeps making the same trip around the same sun every year. Each one of us does not have a specified function, as a crew member would. Going back as far as you want to in history, shortage and scarcity in the world that engendered a crisis was either created by some elite or maintained by them, for the purpose of eradicating dissent and fomenting a collectivist solution. Meaning a solution that came from the top. Meaning a solution that reduced individual freedom. In recent human history, a different idea emerged: establish severely hamstrung government, in order to protect the individual against it. This idea has had a very tough time. Collectivists have fought it every step of the way. But regardless of circumstances, the individual can author one's own freedom and what it implies. S/he can discover, within oneself, extraordinary possibilities. S/he can contemplate what it means to create reality that expresses the person's most profound desires. And then s/he can begin a voyage that no one and no group can stop. Civilizations come and go, rise and fall; the individual remains. The word "imagination," when properly understood, indicates that the individual can envision and then create futures that never were, and never would be, unless s/he invented them. Imagination is the opposite of "provincial," "restricted," "well-known," "familiar," "accepted." That is its challenge to the status quo. That is the true threat the individual poses to all predictive systems. Therefore, "it's all just information" is a psyop code-phrase. Ideas, thoughts---nothing is original, nothing is new; we all "share" information floating in the collective consciousness; the individual invents nothing. Which is the opposite of the truth. The individual invents everything. S/he can't be predicted when s/he is his or her self. S/he is not a pattern. S/he is not a system. S/he is not anyone else. S/he thrives on own inspiration. S/he is the ultimate riverboat gambler. S/he bets the house on the person's own as-yet uncreated future. S/he is not just a piece of universe. S/he is not a humble servant of Order. S/he invents the space and time of the the human person's own time to come. As early as 1961, a brilliant healer, Richard Jenkins, whom I write about in my book, the Secret Behind Secret Societies, explained what was to come. He wrote me a note, which I'm paraphrasing from memory: "People are confusing their own empathy for others with some inflated idea about group-identity. they aren't the same. People are becoming afraid of their own unique and distinct existence. This is a social fear. A new social contract is being foisted on the population. Either you belong, or you have no rights. This is a totalitarian concept. It's coming in through the back door." Well, now, it's right there at the front door. The individual still has a choice. But s/he has to make it. Explore your own power, or give it away for nothing more than an illusion of belonging. Stoke the fires within, or form a diluted image of self, and bow down to the Group. The "I" is not isolated. S/he can reach out to others whenever and however s/he wants to. The question is, is s/he moving on the ground of his or her own independence, or is s/he searching for a group life raft, to which s/he will attach or be attached without thought or hesitation? Beyond economics or politics, Globalism is a system that offers a life raft which is heading toward a machine-future. Disembark and find the great We, a construct of integrated parts, each of which is an individual, in a state of spiritual amnesia. Happiness there is function and sedation, shadowless, wiped clean of distinctions. This is the elitist end-game of social justice and equality. It's a fake culture. --- (*) The author Jon Rappoport offers three explosive collections, the MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. 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[from offlist] Re: Stormfap go bye-bye now...
by Razer 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Because I'd prefer to keep convos started on-list, onlist. On 08/28/2017 08:00 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > I am unconvinced this solution betters all our freedoms. > > "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most > of one's time defending *scoundrels*. For it is > against *scoundrels* that oppressive laws are first aimed, and > oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at > all." > > H.L. Mencken > Fixing the "scoundrel problem" is an intractable problem I have ZERO time for. Allowing an ideology to be promulgated negating human existence due to some unalterable trait is simply suicide for a society, and as can be seen from history, any society nearby. Ps. I take issues with Snopes interpolation of the famous AH quote about 'destroying the nucleus' where Hitler also said the Nazi rise was assisted by the violent counter-elements. <http://www.snopes.com/adolf-hitler-smashing-the-nucleus/> The way to resolve that is for Non-violent Anti-fascist elements to BUTT THE FUCK OUT and practice TACTIC-TOLERANCE. If the media wants to talk to them about it, JUST TELL THE MEDIA YOU ARE THERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, and desist from ANY discussion of other organizations OR THEIR TACTICS. There is a large Non-violent Anti-fascist element in the US that did NOT really exist to any degree in Germany (White Rose, etc, were microscopic), and UNLESS tactic tolerance is practiced by all US antifascist elements, no matter which side ascends, they will lose to Fascism. Rr > Warrant Canary creator > > On Aug 28, 2017 7:51 PM, "Razer" <g2s(a)riseup.net > <mailto:g2s@riseup.net>> wrote: > > > Oldest white supremacist site shut down after complaint > > By JAY REEVES Associated Press > > August 28, 2017 12:03 PM > > BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The founder of the internet's oldest white > supremacist site said he was trying to get back online Monday after a > company revoked its domain name following complaints that it promotes > hatred and is linked to dozens of murders. > > Don Black, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who has operated > stormfront.org <http://stormfront.org> > since 1995, said he didn't receive any warning before Network > Solutions > blocked the use of the stormfront.org <http://stormfront.org> name > on Friday. > > Stormfront.org had more than 300,000 registered users, Black said, > with > traffic increasing since a violent white nationalist rally in > Charlottesville, Virginia. > > Popular with the KKK and neo-Nazi groups, the site included forums > where > users sometimes promoted white power events. > > "I'm talking to my lawyers, and that's about all I can do right now," > Black, of West Palm Beach, Florida, said in a telephone interview. "I > can switch to another domain, but it might wind up the same way." > > Another major white supremacist website, The Daily Stormer, was > previously shut down by the web-hosting company Go Daddy and then > Google > after the violence in Charlottesville. > > The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said the > stormfront.org <http://stormfront.org> shutdown followed > complaints it filed with Network > Solutions alleging the site promotes not only hate speech, but deadly > violence. > > A spokesman for Network Solutions didn't immediately return an email > seeking comment. > > Users of Black's website have been implicated in more than 100 > killings, > according to the complaint, including 77 people slain by neo-Nazi > Anders > Breivik at a camp in Norway in 2011. > > "Especially in the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville and the > spike in hate crimes across the country, Stormfront crossed the > line of > permissible speech and incited and promoted violence," said a > statement > by Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for > Civil Rights Under Law. > > Black, speaking about the shutdown during an online radio show Monday, > said his site had rules against promoting violence or any crime. > > Black was a state KKK leader under former Klan Imperial Wizard David > Duke, who appeared on the radio show following Black and expressed his > "full support" for Black and the website. > > "He was the first major site defending the rights of white > people," said > Duke. > > Black has been involved in the white supremacy movement since the > 1970s > and was convicted in 1981 for his role in a right-wing plot to > overthrow > the government of Caribbean island nation of Dominica. > > =30= > > http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/artic… > <http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/artic…> > >

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